Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRaising a generation of techno-skeptical students
Season 2 Episode 3
Dan Krutka (University of North Texas) is on a mission to support students, teachers and parents to think critically and make informed decisions abou…
1 year, 10 months ago
Students ‘cheating’ with Generative AI
Season 2 Episode 2
Two years on from the initial panic around Chat GPT and student cheating we catch with Phill Dawson from Deakin’s ‘Centre for Research in Assessment …
1 year, 11 months ago
What’s the problem with Google Classroom?
Season 2 Episode 1
We talk with Sonia Livingstone (Digital Futures for Children, LSE) about the ways in which EdTech and data protection policies often fail to protect …
1 year, 11 months ago
‘Digital natives’ … the concept that refuses to die
Season 1 Episode 16
Pekka Mertala (University of Oulu) talks about a new exhaustive analysis of nearly 1900 articles that charts the evolving use of the ‘digital native’…
2 years, 3 months ago
Emotion AI in education
Season 1 Episode 15
Nathalie DiBerardino (Western University) discusses the growing take-up of emotion AI in schools – tech that claims to detect student attention, conc…
2 years, 3 months ago
Banning mobile phones from schools
Season 1 Episode 14
Jack Reed (University of Exeter) talks about the recent UK government push to ban mobile phones from schools in England.
He fills us in on the motiva…
2 years, 4 months ago
Digital technologies in early childhood education
Season 1 Episode 13
Antti Paakkari (Tampere University) talks about his research on digital technologies in Finnish early childhood centres – from digital portfolios to …
2 years, 4 months ago
Digital technologies and the commercialism of education
Season 1 Episode 12
Faith Boninger talks about how digital technologies are increasingly implicated in the commercialism of education.
We talk about Faith’s involvement…
2 years, 5 months ago
Is there a place for facial recognition technology in education?
Season 1 Episode 11
Recent reports of facial recognition technology being developed for use in US classrooms has attracted widespread criticism. We talk to Charles Logan…
2 years, 5 months ago
The history of educational computing in Europe
Season 1 Episode 10
Michael Geiss (Zurich University of Teacher Education) talks about a new edited book looking at how computers came into European schools from the 196…
2 years, 6 months ago